Re: Confusion over Python drivers

Greg Smith wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > While I realize experienced people can easily navigate this confusion...
>
> No, that's the worst part--the more you know and the deeper you dig into
> it, the more broken you realize the whole thing is. When one of the
> best drivers (in some respects) has a web page that looks like this:
> http://initd.org/ that doesn't seem so bad at first--but if you're
> experienced, you know that the page has been in that disturbing state
> since late 2006. You start digging into the driver mess, figure you
> just need to learn how things fit together, but the hole keeps getting
> bigger as you dig.
>
> The issues here have already been identified: the Perl DBI is an
> excellent spec, while the Python one is so weak everybody ends up
> needing their own extensions to it. And then portability *even among
> Python PostgreSQL drivers* goes out the window. If somebody built a
> BSD/MIT licensed driver that replaces every useful feature of all the
> forks, with no major problems, and a couple of major projects switched
> over to it (think "Skype" level big), maybe this mess could get
> resolved. I think it would take someone already familiar with the major
> issues involved a couple of months of regular work to make any serious
> progress on it.

Yes, it is going to take serious time, and it is going to take more than
one person to be involved, but I think there are enough people who care
that something serious can be done to improve its current state.

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